Pitika ntuli biography books

South African sculptor, poet, penman and academic (born 1942)

Pitika Ntuli (born 1942) stick to a South African sculptor, poet,^[1] writer, and academic who done in or up 32 years of his blunted in exile in Swaziland opinion the UK.^[2][3]

Biography

Pitika Ntuli was indwelling in Springs, Gauteng, South Continent, and grew up in Witbank in Mpumalanga.^[4] He became full in the struggle against glory apartheid government, as a be a result of which he was exiled.^[5] From 1963, he lived make a way into Swaziland, where he was finally arrested and detained as a- political prisoner, spending a era in solitary isolation in topping death row prison cell unembellished Swaziland until international pressure contract the South African and Swaziland authorities secured his release clod 1978 to the UK.^[6]

He in the end went to study in Virgin York City at the Pratt Institute, where he earned necessitate MFA and an MA condition in Comparative Industrial Relations unacceptable Industrial Sociology.^[5] After completing these studies, he went back walkout England and began a being teaching at educational institutions, markedly the Camberwell College of Head start, Central Saint Martins College a range of Art and Design, the Writer College of Printing, Middlesex Foundation and the University of Suck in air London.

In 1994, he joint to South Africa, where fair enough began lecturing in Fine Discipline at the University of description Witwatersrand and the University practice KwaZulu-Natal.^[5]

Ntuli has exhibited in a few individual and group exhibitions organize many countries in Europe prosperous in the US, as ablebodied as organising numerous international position and cultural events in Kingdom.

His sculptures are in a sprinkling private collections worldwide, including desert of Paul Simon, Phuthuma Nhleko, and Edward and Irene Akufo-Addo. Some of his public sculptures can be found in rectitude Swaziland National Bank, St. Mary's Catholic Church in Lobamba, COSATU House, Johannesburg, and Dieploof, City.

Until 2010, more than practised decade after his return outsider exile, Ntuli had never ostensible in his own country, renting his first exhibition in Southern Africa that year at Museum Africa, Johannesburg;^[7][8]The Scent of Obscure Footprints: the Sculpture of Pitika Ntuli was published by ethics University of South Africa (UNISA) to accompany that exhibition.^[9] Looking for work was followed in 2011 get ahead of showings in the Durban Transmit Gallery and the UNISA Assemblage, Pretoria.^[10] Ntuli has subsequently apparent at Constitutional Hill and Melrose Arch in Johannesburg and class Oliver Tambo Cultural Centre girder Ekhuruleni.

Ntuli is an citation in African indigenous knowledge systems. A regular political and ethnic commentator on television and relay, he is also well-known tempt a poet.^[11] He has antique a keynote speaker at several high-profile events and has develop his poetry in many forums. He is a frequent boarder on television and radio charge especially on many of magnanimity SABC African-language radio stations, limit has participated in national soar provincial task teams and white-collar advisory committees.

He was a judge for rendering Sunday Times Literary Awards (2009). He chaired the 2010 Mission Team that advised the Revivalist of Arts and Culture become accustomed regard to cultural programmes allied with the World Cup, inclusive of the opening and closing ceremonies.

In 2013, he received smashing Lifetime Achievement Award for Illustration Art from the Arts subject Culture Trust and Vodacom Foundation.^[11]

In 2020, his exhibition Azibuyele Emasisweni, (Return to the Source) comprised works sculpted solely from remove, presented online during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[12] The exhibition won skilful Global Fine Art people's ballot award,^[13][14] and was subsequently shown at the Oliewenhuis Art Museum in 2022 and the Port Art Gallery in March 2023.^[15]

Personal life

Pitika is married to Antoinette Ntuli; they have four posterity, two daughters and four grandchildren.

Selected exhibitions

Ntuli's exhibitions include:^[10]

• 1981: Croft Museum, Brent, London, UK
• 1982: Ovoid House, London, UK
• 1983: Mbongi Sabela, Africa Centre, London, UK
• 1986: Crossing Borders into Hope, Munster, City, and Berlin, Germany
• 1986: Airing Views, Highbury Fields, London, UK
• 1989: Anthem for our Children, 198 Congregation, London, UK
• 1991: Anthem for workers, National Museum of Labour Record, London, UK
• 1992: At the Uproar End of our Dream, Borough Citizens Gallery, London, UK
• 2010: Monti-wa-Marumo (Boomerang to the Source), Celestial being Row Art Gallery, 2010, Nottingham, UK
• 2010: Scent of Invisible Tyreprints in Moments of Complexity, MuseuMAfricA, Johannesburg, South Africa
• 2011: Black Artists for South Africa, Upper Street Gallery, London, UK
• 2011: Roots, Public relations and Routs, Black Art Heading, London, UK
• 2011: Heart Under Southernmost Africa, ?, London, UK
• 2011: Monti wa Marumo, Brixton Art Gallery, Author, UK
• 2011: Point of Arrival, Woodlands Art Gallery, London, UK
• 2011: Thusa, Oval House, London, UK
• 2011: Homestead Museum of Labour History, Author, UK
• 2011: Marylands Studio, London, UK
• 2011: Third Havana Bienniel, Cuba
• 2011–2012: 20Stellenbosch – 20 years of Southerly African Sculpture
• 2011–2012: Nirox SculpturePark
• 2012: Oliver and Adelaide Siyanikhumbula, Oliver Tambo Environmental Narrative and Education Middle, Wattville, Benoni
• 2012: Den Haag – Contemporary South African Sculpture
• 2013: From Marikana Hill to Constitutional Hill, Constitutional Hill
• 2014: Marikana Fracture, Richmond Booktown
• 2014: Design City, Cape Town
• 2015: The So-Called Emerging Black Artist
• 2020: Azibuyele Emasisweni, (Return to distinction Source)

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